Waleed Mahdi, Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation (Syracuse University Press, 2020)
Manata Hashemi, Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity (NYU Press, 2020)
Scott Fritzen (co-authored with MIchael Johnston), The Conundrum of Corruption: Reform for Social Justice (Routledge, 2021)
Afshin Marashi, Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran (University of Texas Press, 2020) by Farzaneh Family Chair of Iranian Studies
Literary Black Power in the Caribbean: Fiction, Music and Film (Routledge, 2021) by Rita Keresztesi, Affiliate Faculty and Executive Board Member, African Studies Institute
Nationalism in a Transnational Age: Irrational Fears and the Strategic Abuse of Nationalist Pride (De Gruyter, 2021), co-edited by Carsten Schapkow (with Frank Jacob), Affiliate Faculty and Director, Center for the Study of Nationalism
Manata Hashemi in The Conversation, "How Iran's Millennials are Grappling with Crippling US Sanctions"
Eric Heinze in Ethics & International Affairs, "Limited Force and the Return of Reprisals in the Law of Armed Conflict"
Bo Kong (with Kevin P. Gallagher) in Energy Research & Social Science, "Inadequate Demand and Reluctant Supply: The Limits of Chinese Official Development Finance for Foreign Renewable Power"
Natalie Letsa in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, "The Mechanisms of Direct and Indirect Rule: Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa"
Michelle Morais de Sa e Silva in Human Rights Quarterly, "Once Upon a Time, a Human Rights Ally: The State and its Bureaucracy in Right-Wing Populist Brazil"
Aqil Shah in Foreign Affairs, "Will Pakistan’s Military Lose Its Grip on Power?"
Fabio de Sa e Silva in the Journal of Law and Society, "From Car Wash to Bolsonaro: Law and Lawyers in Brazil's Illiberal Turn (2014–2018)"
Joshua Landis in Foreign Affairs, "The Pointless Cruelty of Trump’s New Syria Sanctions"
Samer Shehata in the Guardian, "The Real Reason Trump is Terrified of Losing the Presidency: Fear of Prosecution" and in Al Jazeera, "Trump is Inciting Domestic Terrorism"
Wick Cary Assistant Professor of Political Economy Natalie Letsa was awarded funding from the American Political Science Association Centennial Center and Warren E. Miller Fund in Electoral Politics to conduct research in Cameroon for her book manuscript, "The Autocratic Citizen: Partisanship and Political Behavior under Dictatorship," which seeks to understand why citizens in autocratic regimes feel attachment to political parties.
Professor Jonathan Stalling, Harold J. and Ruth Newman Chair in US-China Issues, was awarded a Chinese patent for a language algorithm he developed, which uses Chinese characters to encode English speech sounds without disruptive effects. Read the story.
The OU Center for Peace and Development has been awarded a prestigious $175,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to support the center’s research mission and collaborative activities. The two-year grant will help develop projects under the theme “Peace, Conflict, and International Political Economy.” Read the press release (PDF).
Michelle Morais de Sa e Silva, Assistant Professor of International Studies, was appointed as an associate editor of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.
Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies Fabio de Sa e Silva was elected to the Law and Society Association Board of Trustees. Read the announcement.
